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Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780008220549
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816539956
Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466846517
Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780816542550
Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.
Author : Jason Rodriguez
Publisher : Villard
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780307497338
“The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.” –Frank Warren, author of PostSecret You’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a snapshot of someone’s life once upon a time. Jason Rodriguez, acclaimed editor of Elk’s Run, collected a remarkable array of these correspondences, dispersed them among thirty-three of comics’ greatest creators, and asked each to craft a story about the person who sent it. The result is a vividly imagined, gorgeously rendered graphic anthology illustrating tales of romance, adventure, hardship, and mystery. In Postcards, these gifted artists share some of the richest and most inventive work of their careers.
Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Fourth Estate
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008351813
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.'Sublimely funny' Jason Hazeley, author of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups'My favourite Twitter account is now my favourite book. Irresistible!' Jill Mansell 'This book is an absolute treat' Holly Walsh 'Transfixing, beguiling, warmly haunting. These are the ghosts of a childhood' Robin Ince 'A hilarious and occasionally disturbing look at how the British remain resolutely small-minded wherever they go' Charlie Higson 'Six by four inch portions of pure heaven' Rachel Johnson 'Somehow both poignant and deeply creepy' Samira Ahmed 'One of Twitter's most nourishing concepts - each one arriving like a bonsai Alan Bennett play' Danny Baker'Beautiful. Inspiring. Educational. Hilarious' Emma Freud'One of the saddest and funniest picture books you're ever likely to read' Owen Hatherley, author of The Ministry of Nostalgia'Hilarious, haunting, silly, poetic and profound' Danny Wallace'A book of rare and genuine beauty' James O'Brien, LBC
Author : Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1894974638
Award-winning popular historians Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have assembled an all-new collection of postcard views capturing different communities around British Columbia as they appeared at the turn of the 20th century. Collectively defining the state of affairs in BC a century ago, each one of these images has a story to tell. Once a thriving cannery town, Port Essington is now long gone, abandoned and then destroyed by forest fires. They may have mined millions of dollars in gold at Stout's Gulch, but you'll have trouble finding it on any maps today. Even Kelowna's main street is unrecognizable. With each passing year, it becomes more difficult to find rare and unusual black-and-white printed postcards from this period. Many of the ones Thirkell and Scullion have included in "Greetings from British Columbia" are themselves rare, borrowed from the collection of a pre-eminent postcard dealer without whose cooperation this new collection would not have been possible.
Author : Martin Willoughby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UVA:X002556533
Author : Tiffany Willey Middleton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439661987
Clyde is a community located in northwest Ohio, less than one hour southeast of Toledo, with a population of approximately 6,500 people. In many ways, Clyde is a famous small town--it has been launched into the national spotlight numerous times during its 150-year history. Clyde was the home of Civil War hero James B. McPherson, political cartoonist James Albert Wales, author Sherwood Anderson, and World War II hero Rodger Young. The images in this volume provide windows into Clyde's storied history and offer glimpses of the everyday moments shared by its citizens.
Author : Tony Abbott
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316033541
She died today. One phone call changes Jason's summer vacation-and life!-forever. When Jason's grandmother dies, he's sent down to her home in Florida to help his father clean out her things. At first he gripes about spending his summer miles away from his best friend, doing chores, and sweating in the Florida heat, but he soon discovers a mystery surrounding his grandmother's murky past. An old, yellowed postcard...a creepy phone call with a raspy voice at the other end asking, "So how smart are you?"...an entourage of freakish funeral goers....a bizarre magazine story. All contain clues that will send him on a thrilling journey to uncover family secrets. Award-winning author Tony Abbott weaves an intriguing and entertaining mystery of adventure, friendship and family.
Author : Philip Edward Jaeger
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439631744
Montclair, New Jersey, like most American towns, has grown dramatically over the course of the last one hundred years. Much of the early 1900s landscape has been disguised, and the town has come to reflect the popular styles and fashions of changing eras. Streets have been paved, the facades of commercial buildings have been updated, and homes have been altered to reflect contemporary tastes and accommodate modern conveniences. This volume of approximately two hundred postcards from the author's collection, most never before published in book form, captures Montclair as it was in the early twentieth century. The reader will see familiar landmarks such as the Montclair Art Museum, the Marlboro Inn, and the Bellevue Theater as they originally appeared, and discover the vanished predecessors of the Japanese-style mansion on Upper Mountain Avenue and the Rockcliffe Apartments off Crestmont Road.
Author : David Prochaska,Jordana Mendelson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UCSD:31822036457521
Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.
Author : Fred Thirkell,Robert Scullion
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1895811236
City of Vancouver Heritage award winner, 2003 Postcards From The Pastprovides a nostalgic and enlightening glimpse of Vancouver and surrounding environs during its first great decade of growth, years now known as the Edwardian Era. Authors Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have presented a collection of outstanding postcard images, complemented by historical anecdotes and amusing asides. Complete with maps showing the sites of the original photos, this collection allows readers to gain a new perspective of a grand time and a magnificent place.
Author : C. Milton Hinshilwood,Elena Irish Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738508098
Covering the history and geography of Los Angeles and Pasadena between 1900 and 1950, the collection of over 200 vintage postcards compiled in this new volume offers a unique glimpse into turn-of-the-century southern California. As communication by postcards became popular in the late 19th century, those who received them were offered a rare view of the "right here, right now" aspect that only postcard photography could offer. From the earliest images of the Angels' Flight in Los Angeles, to the Tournament of Roses parades gliding down Colorado Street, the authors celebrate the history of these two beautiful cities through the personal medium of vintage postcards.
Author : Bonnie Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Postcards
ISBN : 9814382078
The postcards in this book cover the period from the turn of the 20th century during the last reign of King Chulalongkorn to the early 1930s, into the final years of King Prajadhipok's reign.
